Diagnosis and management of IBS

Nature Reviews Gastroenterology and Hepatology

Volumn 7, Issue 10, 2010, Pages 565-581

  Khan, Sarah ^a   Chang, Lin ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALOSETRON; ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; ANTIDIARRHEAL AGENT; BULKING AGENT; CHOLINERGIC RECEPTOR BLOCKING AGENT; CIMETROPIUM; DESIPRAMINE; DIPHENOXYLATE; ISPAGULA; LAXATIVE; LOPERAMIDE; LUBIPROSTONE; MACROGOL; MEBEVERINE; METHYLCELLULOSE; NORTRIPTYLINE; OTILONIUM BROMIDE; PINAVERIUM; PLACEBO; POLYCARBOPHIL CALCIUM; PROBIOTIC AGENT; RIFAXIMIN; SCOPOLAMINE; SEROTONIN 3 ANTAGONIST; SEROTONIN 4 AGONIST; SPASMOLYTIC AGENT; TEGASEROD; TRICYCLIC ANTIDEPRESSANT AGENT; TRIMEBUTINE; UNINDEXED DRUG;

ABDOMINAL CRAMP; ABDOMINAL DISCOMFORT; ABDOMINAL PAIN; ACUPUNCTURE; ALTERNATIVE MEDICINE; BLOATING; BLURRED VISION; CHINESE MEDICINE; CLINICAL EFFECTIVENESS; CLINICAL FEATURE; CLINICAL TRIAL; COGNITIVE THERAPY; COLON ISCHEMIA; CONSTIPATION; DEFECATION HABIT; DIARRHEA; DIET THERAPY; DIETARY FIBER; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; DIVERTICULITIS; DIZZINESS; DRUG DOSE ESCALATION; DRUG DOSE INCREASE; DRUG DOSE TITRATION; DRUG MECHANISM; DRUG MEGADOSE; ELECTROLYTE DISTURBANCE; EVENING DOSAGE; EVIDENCE BASED MEDICINE; FLATULENCE; HEALTH CARE COST; HEALTH EDUCATION; HEART PALPITATION; HEPATIC ENCEPHALOPATHY; HUMAN; HYPNOSIS; INSOMNIA; IRRITABLE COLON; ISCHEMIC COLITIS; LOW DRUG DOSE; NAUSEA; NONHUMAN; PATIENT SATISFACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOSOCIAL CARE; PSYCHOTHERAPY; RECOMMENDED DRUG DOSE; RECURRENT DISEASE; REVIEW; SEDATION; SIDE EFFECT; STRESS MANAGEMENT; TACHYCARDIA; TRAVELLER DIARRHEA; TREATMENT RESPONSE; XEROSTOMIA;

ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; ANTIDIARRHEALS; BEHAVIOR THERAPY; HUMANS; IRRITABLE BOWEL SYNDROME; LAXATIVES; PROBIOTICS;

EID: 77957726316     PISSN: 17595045     EISSN: 17595053     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nrgastro.2010.137     Document Type: Review

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